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Nick McIntosh
Nick McIntosh

Nick McIntosh

Editor of Climbing Zone and New Stuff For Old People
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Nick McIntosh
Nick McIntosh in Climbing Zone
Aug 1, 2018 · 2 min read

Starting from fresh has been great.

I dropped Climbing Zone for a while there. I dropped it, because the code’s complexity didn’t fit in my head. A break was great — then I found my mind wandering back to how to do it.

Nick McIntosh
Nick McIntosh in New Stuff For Old People
May 29, 2017 · 9 min read

Bitcoin explained like an onion, Part 4: How the Blockchain really works.

This part will knock your socks off, it’s the really clever bit, the deepest layer of the Bitcoin onion. Everything we talked about before was really just old stuff translated into digital form. This…

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Nick McIntosh
Nick McIntosh in New Stuff For Old People
May 28, 2017 · 7 min read

Bitcoin explained like an onion, Part 3: How to make a digital signature

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Nick McIntosh
Nick McIntosh in New Stuff For Old People
May 28, 2017 · 5 min read

Bitcoin explained like an onion, Part 2: A trusty chain

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Nick McIntosh
Nick McIntosh in New Stuff For Old People
May 28, 2017 · 3 min read

Bitcoin explained like an onion: Let’s talk about money.

My mother was irritated that she had no idea what Bitcoin was. I tried to explain, but couldn’t, as I didn’t know myself. So I did a whole lot of reading, so I could. Bitcoins turned out to be very, very interesting — so I’m…

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